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Poles take to streets against near-total abortion ban
Rage against new restrictions
24 October, 14:47
(ANSA-AFP) - VARSAVIA, 24 OTT - Thousands of Poles took to
the streets on Friday to protest against a near-total ban on
abortion in a country that already has some of the EU's most
stringent restrictions. Demonstrators rallied in several cities,
furious with Thursday's ruling by Poland's constitutional court
that existing legislation which allows for the abortion of
malformed foetuses was "incompatible" with the protection of
life. The verdict drew an outcry from rights groups in and
outside the deeply Catholic country. "It's war" or "We're coming
to get you, you sadists" read some of the banners decked with a
red lightning image that has become a symbol of the protesters'
anger. (ANSA-AFP).
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